Days out

An informal weekly 5k run in Pollok Country Park. Everyone is welcome, no matter how fast or slow (you're welcome to walk the route, bring your dog or push a buggy), so you can use it as a one-off fitness test, a chance to get some fresh air or come every week to try to beat your personal best time. It's friendly and…

Leighton-based choir perform traditional works. Featuring folk, pop and classical styles.

Celebrate Henderson's 50th birthday with some birthday cake while watching local artist Ben Hymers construct a likeness of Edinburgh Castles out of only vegetables and marvelling at the 100 metre square picnic blanket designed by over 100 Edinburgh school children. Fun!

This day of cycling has a distinctly female slant, but everyone's welcome (equality!)

Former Children's Laureate and best-selling author and broadcaster Rosen reads some of his poetry, accompanied by a live band and a dancer.

Garden opening.

Immigrants to Scotland tell stories about making the country their home in an open mic setting. Musicians Roxana and Peter Vilk lead the session. Booking is essential.

Make a suffragatte rosette with your own modern slogan. Materials supplied.

The opportunity to purchase spare parts for the classic cars.

Wisbech present an exhibition demonstrating body building.

A look at the work of Janet Henderson, who helped to establish the organic, local sourcing and healthy eating scene here in Scotland, and a glance at the future of food culture in the country. Booking is essential.

Edinburgh's annual Festival of Spirituality and Peace is relaunched in 2013 as Just Festival, comprising 129 events in 28 different venues. There's live music from Chile's Tejas Verdes, music and dance from Soweto Melodic Voices, conversations, film screenings, exhibitions, family events and Edinburgh's first Death Café…

Cheeky cocktails, naughty nibbles and a host of pampering goodness.

New market with a tantalising selection of vintage, craft and design vendors – including clothes, jewellery, handmade, up-cycled furniture, accessories, homewares, food, cakes, millinery, stationery, art and lots more.

BBQ and refreshments will be on offer while watching local and school groups perform in the display arena. Attractions include face painter and glitter tattoos, hook a duck, welly wanging, splat the rat, coconut shy, teacher in the stocks, beat the goalie, tombola and bottle stalls.

Aiming to assemble 250 singers, no experience necessary (though under 16s must be accompanied by an adult) to sing a mix of world, jazz, classical, rock, indie, folk, gospel and opera.

Interactive displays and installations celebrating the bicentennial anniversary of the fairy tale collection of the brothers Grimm.